Alberto Guerrero-Velázquez
Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist
I am a philosopher with a deep interest in the mind, interculturality, and multidisciplinarity. I am currently pursuing a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Western Australia, under the supervision of Professor Rob Wilson. My research is funded by the ARC Discovery Project Keeping Kinship in Mind. My thesis focuses on episodic thinking and mnemonic discordance, with a specific emphasis on autobiographical memory and its interaction with imagination, identity, language, and collective memory.
I earned a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, Mexico. Subsequently, I moved to Argentina to complete a specialisation in Social Sciences with a focus on Social History at the University of Luján in Buenos Aires. In 2020, I completed a Master’s degree in Cognitive Science at the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos.
My contributions to the fields of philosophy and social history have been published in journals across Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil. I was the compiler of Memorias desde el sur, a collective publication offering profound interdisciplinary perspectives on memory processes in Colombia and Argentina.
Curriculum Vitae
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Work Experience
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Education
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Scholarships & Grants
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Publications
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Events organised
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Presentations
University Teaching Experience
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Tutor in Bioethics (Phil 2001)
2023, 2025 (semester 1) / The University of Western Australia / Perth, WA
Responsibilities: Facilitation of undergraduate tutorials; guidance of student discussion on ethical theory and applied bioethics; assessment marking; student consultation.
Tutor in Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (Phil 2008)
2024 (semester 2) / The University of Western Australia / Perth, WA
Responsibilities: Facilitation of tutorials on core topics in philosophy of AI; support of student learning in conceptual and normative analysis; assessment and marking.
Lecturer (Ethics)
2017 (semester 2) / Autonomous University of Aguascalientes / Aguascalientes, Mexico.
Responsibilities: Design and delivery of lectures; development of course materials; facilitation of tutorials; assessment design and marking.
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Academic Service and Educational Leadership
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Founder / Director of Educative Innovation
2020 – 2022 / Highland International School / Aguascalientes, Mexico.
Responsibilities: design and implementation of educational programs and strategies. Training and supervision of teachers.
School Libraries manager
2014 – 2018 / Bosques International School / Aguascalientes, Mexico.
Responsibilities: Training and supervision of teachers.
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Prior teaching experience in secondary education (2007–2014)
PhD in Philosophy (in progress)
2022 – Expected completion 2025 / University of Western Australia
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- Research visit (July-September) – 2025 – Centre for Philosophy of Memory. Université Grenoble-Alpes (France). Direction: Professor Kourken Michaelian.
Master in Cognitive Sciences
2018 – 2020 / Centre for Research in Cognitive Science (CINCCO) – Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (Mexico)
Honorific mention / Thesis (in Spanish): Contextual factors that influence autobiographic evocation in an interview context.
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- Research visit (September-November) – 2019 – Centre for Philosophy of Memory. Université Grenoble-Alpes (France). Direction: Professor Kourken Michaelian
Postgraduate Specialisation in Social Sciences
2010 – 2012 / National University of Luján (Argentina)
Dissertation (in Spanish): Territory, ritual and cultural mixing. Rethinking the emergence of guadalupan worship in Mexico.
Bachelor in Philosophy
2004 – 2008 / Autonomous University of Aguascalientes (Mexico)
Final Essay (in Spanish): Claiming imagination (About language learning, imagination and family resemblance in Wittgenstein).
Certificate Course in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language
2022 / 120 hours –Externado University (Colombia)
(2025) Barry Marshall and Robin Warren Convocation Postgraduate Research Travel Award
For funding a research stay in the Centre for Philosophy of Memory
(2025) PSA Fieldwork and Data Collection Award
For funding a research stay in the Centre for Philosophy of Memory
(2025) Kieran Dolin Prize for Postgraduate Publication
School of Humanities, University of Western Australia
(2025) Overseas Travel Award
For funding a research stay in the Centre for Philosophy of Memory
(2023) AAP Postgraduate Fund
For funding for the conference ‘Thinking together: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Collective Memory and Collective Knowledge’
(2021) Scholarship for International Research Fees (48 months)
The University of Western Australia
(2021) International Living Allowance Scholarship (36+6 months)
The University of Western Australia
(2019) Scholarship as a visiting research student (3 months)
National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT)
(2018) Master Student Scholarship (24 months)
National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT).
(2012) Specialization Student Scholarship (24 months)
Ministry of Education of Argentina
(2008) Scholarship for the 10° Science Summer (1 month)
Council for Science and Technology of the State of Aguascalientes (CONCyTEA)
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Guerrero-Velázquez, A. (2025). Creating the self: The construction of identity through self-narration in autobiographical interviews. Philosophical Psychology, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2025.2608901
Guerrero-Velázquez, A. and Enciso, S.W. (2025), Constructive Memory in Truth-Telling for Reconciliation. Journal of Applied Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1002/japp.70066
Guerrero-Velázquez, A. (2024). El trauma está en la respuesta. Hacia una visión postcausal en la definición de trauma psicológico. Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso, 26, 75-102. https://doi.org/10.22370/rhv2024iss26pp75-102
Guerrero-Velázquez, C. A. (2021). Memoria y percepción en la entrevista autobiográfica: una simulación episódica que se adapta en tiempo real al contexto. Estudios de Filosofía, 64, 21-45. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ef.n64a02
Guerrero Velásquez, C. (2014). El mestizaje en el Tepeyac y la construcción discursiva de una hierofanía en el comienzo del despertar poscolonial. Espaço e Cultura. 34, 151-171. https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/index.php/ espacoecultura/article/view/12512
Guerrero Velázquez, C. (2011). El impacto ideológico de la Escuela francesa sobre el ejército argentino. Persona y Sociedad, XXV (2), 9-49. https://personaysociedad.uahurtado.cl/index.php/ps/article/view/214
Edited volumes
Guerrero Velázquez, C. (2013). Memorias desde el sur. Reflexiones y propuestas de jóvenes investigadores sobre procesos de memoria en Colombia y Argentina (Comp.). Argentina: Ceraunia – Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP). https://archive.org/details/memorias-desde-el-sur
Chapters
Guerrero Velázquez, A. (2025). Recordar es construir. El carácter creativo del recuerdo en la entrevista autobiográfica. In Leal Castillo, A., Vega Martínez, B. S., Hernández Alvarado, H.G., Camarena Ocampo, M. y Atilano Villegas, R. (Eds.), Historia Oral: sujetos y memorias (16-25). México: Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila. https://www2.uadec.mx/pub/DIP/Libros/2025/HistoriaOral.pdf
Guerrero Velázquez, C. (2013). Creador de mundos. El efecto performativo del lenguaje en la narración autobiográfica y en la resignificación de la identidad. In Guerrero Velázquez, C. (Ed.), Memorias desde el sur. Reflexiones y propuestas de jóvenes investigadores sobre procesos de memoria en Colombia y Argentina (43-56). Argentina: Ceraunia – Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP). https://archive.org/details/memorias-desde-el-sur
Guerrero Velázquez, C. (2012). Prologue. In Olvera, C., Dilucidación de la estética de Hegel. Una introducción a sus conceptos estéticos. Argentina: Ceraunia.
Guerrero Velázquez, C. (2009). Del fuego robado. In Olvera, C. (Ed.), Los límites del arte (43-54). México: Instituto Cultural de Aguascalientes
Guerrero Velázquez, C. (2006). El arte supremo. Música y divinidad en Cioran. In Olvera, C. y Aguilera, R. (Eds.), Filosofía, Arte y Mística en Cioran (83-99). México: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL) – Jayo.
MemoriEs. Internacional Online Symposium II (in Spanish)
Conference co-organiser
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
27-28 November 2025
MemoriEs. Internacional Online Symposium (in Spanish)
Conference co-organiser with Stephen W. Enciso
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
20-22 November 2024
Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference 2024
Volunteers Coordinator
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
7-11 July 2024
Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy Conference 2023
Conference co-organizer
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
14-15 December 2023
Thinking Together: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Collective Memory and Collective Thinking
Conference co-organiser with Dr. Anne Schwenkenbecher
Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
31 October – 2 November 2023
Webinar in Cognitive Sciences (in Spanish)
Webinar’s organiser
Online: https://www.youtube.com/@webinarcc3522/streams
26 May 2020
(Last 3 years)
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Invited talks
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Human Nature: Body, Mind, and Cognition
Universidad Politécnica de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, México
13 January 2026
Remembering and Denialism: The Case of the Stolen Generations
XL International Colloquium: Against «Perfection»
17, Institute of Critical Studies – From Small Beginnings / Global Anti-Eugenics Centre
Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico
21 January 2026
Constructive Memory in Truth-telling for Reconciliation
Internal Seminar, Centre for Philosophy of Memory (CPM)
Université Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France
21 July 2025
Constructive Memory in Truth-telling for Reconciliation
World Archaeological Congress
Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia
26 June 2025
Reimagining the Past: The Creative Character of Episodic Remembering
Murdoch Philosophy Seminar
Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
30 October 2024
Episodic Thinking as an Epistemic Device
Internal Seminar – Centre for Philosophy of Memory
Online
8 January 2024
Thinking Together: Exploring the Role of Kinship in the Emergence of Complex Forms of Memory
International Society for the History Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology biennial meeting
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
10 July 2023
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Contributed talks
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Creative Memory: Memories as Hypotheses of the Past (in Spanish)
XXII International Philosophy Congress / Philosophy Association of Mexico
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mérida, Mexico
3 December 2025
Revisiting the Concept of Psychological Trauma
MemoriEs. II Simposio Internacional Online.
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
28 November 2025
Reimagining the Past: The Creative Character of Episodic Remembering (in Spanish)
MemoriEs. Simposio Internacional Online.
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
20 November 2024
Trauma Lies in the Response: Revisiting the Concept of Psychological
Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference 2024
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
11 July 2024
Trauma Lies in the Response: Revisiting the Concept of Psychological Trauma from a Post-Causal Perspective of Memory.
Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy Conference 2023
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
14 December 2023
Episodic Thinking as an Epistemic Device
1st Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind
Online
24 November 2023
Trauma is in the response. Revisiting the Concept of Psychological Trauma from a Postcausal Perspective of Memory. (in Spanish)
International Seminar on Behavior and Applications (SINCA)
University of Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico
15 November 2023
Remembering is Constructing: the Creative Character of Remembering in Autobiographical Interview (in Spanish)
XIII International Conference of Oral History
University of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
11 November 2023
Episodic Thinking as an Epistemic Device (in Spanish)
XXI International Philosophy Conference of the Philosophical Association of Mexico
University of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
7 November 2023
The Creative Potential of Remembering Together
Thinking Together: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Collective Memory and Collective Thinking
Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
1 November 2023
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